A day after canceling a scheduled speech by Ann Coulter, UC Berkeley administrators extended an invite to the right-wing pundit to come to the campus on May 2.

It was unclear whether Coulter would take up that offer. The university canceled Coulter’s April 27 scheduled appearance saying it could not protect participants from rioting — and she responded by saying she’d show up anyway to give her speech, on or off campus.

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Two students groups were hosting the event — the Berkeley College Republicans and BridgeUSA, which gets students with political differences to listen to each other. They had said the cancellation made them angry because they had cooperated with administrators’ demands to end the event by mid-afternoon.

University administrators raised concerns about safety in light on the riot that occurred in February after right-wing speaker Milo Yiannopoulos tried to give a speech on campus.